What is luan? In regards to my bed skirt...
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Luan is thin wood panel, about 1/8" to 7/32" thick usually use as an underlayment under floors.
Luan is the wood that you'll need, I foun this Hometalker's post to be really helpful: http://www.hometalk.com/diy/decorate/rooms/tailoring-a-bed-skirt-16136095?expand_all_questions=1 Good luck!!!
Tailoring a Bed Skirt
Can you just hem the skirt to the needed length?
If it is the kind of skirt that has a sheet between the mattress and box spring- take the mattress off, fold the excess right to left sheeting in the middle and pin, staple, tape. make a little pleat in the bottom edge of the skirt and pin where the skirt and sheeting meet. Slide the skirt forward so the foot edge is where you need it to be. fold the top- bottom excess under on the wall end. pin, staple, tape. I hope I have described it well enough for you to get the idea of taking up the excess under the mattress.
Everything I see on luan or lauan is a type of thin plywood
Luan is not plywood. It is like maple, walnut, etc. If you have hollow core doors in your house. the outside is probably luan type wood about 1/8 thick. Not much to nail to or screw into, but easy to paint, but prime first. They can be stained though and polyurethaned also which if you take your time, will turn out very nice.
Get dust-skirt screws or self stick Velcro at Joanne's. Take your mattress off, of course, and adjust the length of the skirt, fixing in place with either of those tools. If you tend to wash your skirt frequently, make the extra effort and sew/tack it to its new length. There's no need to use a board; just "hem" the sheet-top to itself. I like that too because if the mattress shifts, I still see the color of the skirt, not the white of the top.